SOCI 1000U Lecture 5: SOCI 1000 lecture 5 tues oct 10
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How we come to be as social beings. Discourse: a group of ideas and understandings about a topic that is communicated through language. It is composed of signs (sign=signifier+signified) and are complex signs themselves. America, man, professional, the market, sexuality, love, god, morality. Meme: an entire discourse or part of one a word, phrase, or idea that seems to self-replicate through society. Subjectivity: a blank human space that is populated by discourses and/or memes. It seems to be an entity of its own, but really it is controlled my memes and discourses. People usually mistake their subjectivity with their self . The social and technical systems through which we communicate and organize our communication. In capitalist societies, culture is largely produced in cultural industries . Cultural industries: institutions in our society which employ the characteristic modes of production and organization of industrial corporations to produce and disseminate symbols in the form of cultural goods and services as commodities.